Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer will play the leads in "
The Irishman," a crime story that Jonathan Hensleigh will direct.
Greene was a violent Irish-American gangster who competed with the Italian mob in 1970s Cleveland and ended up provoking a countrywide turf war that crippled the mafia. Walken will play the loan shark and nightclub owner Shondor Birns, and Kilmer is a Cleveland police detective who befriends Greene.